Word: repellent
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...vessels capable of performing the two major missions that have been assigned to them since the end of World War II. They are: ? Projecting power abroad. This primarily means using the warplanes and Marine Corps detachments aboard aircraft carriers stationed in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to help repel any Soviet attack against the relatively poorly defended flanks of NATO. The Sixth Fleet's two carriers, for instance, can rapidly commit more than 100 fighter-bombers, about half a dozen early-warning command-and-control aircraft and 1,800 Marines to battle on eastern Mediterranean shores in support...
...Keeping the sea lanes open. Unlike the Soviet Union, which borders on nearly every one of its client states, the U.S. is separated by oceans from all its NATO allies except Canada. The Atlantic Alliance's ability to repel a Soviet invasion depends on reinforcements and supplies arriving from the U.S. after the fighting starts. Since airlifts can transport only a tiny fraction of this, the bulk of the critically important resupply could be sunk by Soviet submarines, land-based aircraft and surface vessels. To prevent this, contend Navy officers, U.S. warships, armed with antisubmarine and antimissile weapons, must escort...
Brzezinski explains that his responsibility is national security, that it is up to him to perceive the threats and probes to the U.S. and figure out how to react, repel or rebuff. Vance's job, says Brzezinski, is to resolve contentious issues through negotiation. Vance sees his role as somewhat broader than that of negotiator, however. Some of his associates believe he feels a professional kinship with the modest but highly effective and creative George C. Marshall, Harry Truman's postwar Secretary. Unlike Brzezinski, Vance is both so self-effacing and self-confident that he does not resent or fear...
...tanks (20,500, v. 7,000), artillery (10,000, v. 2,700) and fixed-wing warplanes (3,525, v. 2,050). While an imbalance has existed for some time, the gap has been widening in recent years, increasing the doubts about NATO'S ability to repel an attack. Although that attack may never come, the possibility has important political consequences and therefore needs to be met by a credible defense...
...potential, between clouds and earth (or be tween different clouds) to overcome the resistance of the insulating layer of air between them. The buildup occurs when electrons, perhaps carried by falling water droplets, migrate to the bottom of a cloud, giving it a strong negative charge. Because like charges repel, that negative charge drives away electrons in the ground below, leaving it with an excess positive charge. Eventually, the voltage between cloud and ground becomes so great that electrons burst across the insulating air barrier, producing a brilliant flash...